| Author of "The Cloister and the Hearth" | 49 |
| Actress Witherspoon of "Legally Blonde" | 49 |
| Animated dog originally voiced by John Kricfalusi | 49 |
| Actress O'Connor of TV's "Xena" | 49 |
| Aired ''The Jackie Gleason Show'' | 49 |
| Actress Downey of "Touched by an Angel" | 49 |
| Actor Eldard of "House of Sand and Fog" | 49 |
| Auto whose griffin logo was recently discontinued | 49 |
| Actress Ramirez of "Grey's Anatomy" | 49 |
| Awaited someone's arrival before going to bed | 49 |
| Aptly, about 5 percent of the Earth's surface | 49 |
| Actor voicing the mayor on "Family Guy" | 49 |
| A mysterious red hair on a shirt collar, perhaps? | 49 |
| Author of "The Man With the Golden Arm" | 49 |
| Affirmation about the God of Islam's justice? | 49 |
| Anagram for "Try Ma's charm, sire!" | 49 |
| Actress with the memoir "Call Me Crazy" | 49 |
| Aphid that creates a milky food for other insects | 49 |
| Actor who played Dr. Mark Green on "ER" | 49 |
| Academy Award that's the theme of this puzzle | 49 |
| Actor honored with a memorial statue in Hong Kong | 49 |
| An amusement with a member of the parsley family? | 49 |
| Author of "Gods, Graves & Scholars" | 49 |
| Â Â What the paranoid C.I.A. publicist did? | 49 |
| Annual juried exhibition at the Smithsonian, e.g. | 49 |
| All-nighter of clubbing and drugs that goes awry? | 49 |
| Avoids talking with one's mouth full, perhaps | 49 |
| Atom who directed "The Sweet Hereafter" | 49 |
| Additives to improve the smell of auto emissions? | 49 |
| Actress Veronica of "Hill Street Blues" | 49 |
| Actress Barbara shows affection for E.M.T.'s? | 49 |
| Attachment to "van" or "tort" | 49 |
| Apollo 12's "fearless" lunar module | 49 |
| Actor with an L.A.P.D. auditorium named after him | 49 |
| Actress Lewis of "Natural Born Killers" | 49 |
| Advice about what to tell the insurance adjuster? | 49 |
| American League first basemen Millar and Youkilis | 49 |
| Acela painted aqua? (Miles Davis / John Coltrane) | 49 |
| A fine whine to go with one's seafood entree? | 49 |
| Arts and crafts projects that hold badges or keys | 49 |
| Alec Guinness film (with ''The'') | 49 |
| Annual championship in Williamsport, Pennsylvania | 49 |
| Animal that's unusually fast for its species? | 49 |
| Actress Adams who played two different Bond girls | 49 |
| A Revolutionary officer and a Civil War commander | 49 |
| Adjunct for "war" or "gossip" | 49 |
| Actress Clyne of "Battlestar Galactica" | 49 |
| Answer to "Should I use a rubber band?" | 49 |
| Actress Natasha's distant Scandinavian cousin | 49 |
| Attorney for the Environmental Protection Agency? | 49 |
| Architect interred in Arlington National Cemetery | 49 |
| Arguably redundant name for a photographic device | 49 |
| Annie who voiced Bo Peep in "Toy Story" | 49 |
| Anticipations of possible objections, in rhetoric | 49 |
| AM/FM programs aired in Brazil's first month? | 49 |
| Actor Giovanni of "Lost in Translation" | 49 |
| Ad answer to "How do you spell relief?" | 49 |
| Aura surrounding a black mountain lion? [Mercury] | 49 |
| Author of "A Year of Beauty and Health" | 49 |
| Annual quartet that's this puzzle's theme | 49 |
| Architect who designed the Harvard Science Center | 49 |
| A heptad of mischievous sprites turned laterally? | 49 |
| Actress Jane who was a "Medicine Woman" | 49 |
| Aristotle's "ornament to the young" | 49 |
| Actress Moon of "House of 1000 Corpses" | 49 |
| Actress in the first five "Rocky" films | 49 |
| Approximately 1,600 feet, for the Brooklyn Bridge | 49 |
| Agnew whose name has at least two famous anagrams | 49 |
| Astronomical giant with a spectral letter ranking | 49 |
| Administrative executives, to lower-level workers | 49 |
| “The Playboy of the Western World” author | 49 |
| “___ and Sympathy” (Robert Anderson play) | 49 |
| Act of instantaneous prayer, in modern-day jargon | 49 |
| Alloy of lead and tin used to coat auto gas tanks | 49 |
| Academy Award-winning film released in March 1972 | 49 |
| Another side to a 1980 Chuck Norris action flick? | 49 |
| Athlete wearing a calligraphic "D" logo | 49 |
| Actress Swinton of "Burn After Reading" | 49 |
| Actress Ashley of "High School Musical" | 49 |
| Â Â "I'm not making this up!" | 49 |
| Answer to "You wouldn't believe it" | 49 |
| Arizona city nicknamed "The Old Pueblo" | 49 |
| A1: "Now listen. Just ___ on these ..." | 49 |
| Appliances hidden in seven answers in this puzzle | 49 |
| Actress Thurman of "Dangerous Liaisons" | 49 |
| Antonio who composed "The Four Seasons" | 49 |
| American Revolution's "Mad Anthony" | 49 |
| A2: "... ___, Chief? Or Chef? Or Boss?" | 49 |
| Aptly named college team from Southern California | 49 |
| Airport passenger scanner since the late '00s | 49 |
| “Three-Ten to ___” (Elmore Leonard story) | 49 |
| Actress Mimieux of "Where the Boys Are" | 49 |
| Arthur and his family in "Hoop Dreams" | 48 |
| All Those Years ___" (George Harrison song) | 48 |
| Allmans "___ Wastin' Time No More" | 48 |
| Album with the 1978 hit "Deacon Blues" | 48 |
| Allowing for pets' comings and goings, maybe | 48 |
| Arkin of ''Glengarry Glen Ross'' | 48 |
| Author Horatio who wrote "Ragged Dick" | 48 |
| Athol Fugard's "A Lesson From ___" | 48 |